Because in OSX server you cannot login to a server remotely using root, you have to use an admin accout to join a machine to a domain. I changed the owner of the samba dir and smbpasswd file to admin. Seems a little too easy now.
/me kicks self for not thinking of that a while ago. I just hope this saves someone else some time. Kyle Loree Rendek Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I have a mac osx 10.2.3 as a server, anyone unfamiliar with it, it uses >admin as main user. root is still on the system. Admin is admin of the >password server which is required to login to samba. therefore root can't >be the one to join. yet admin doesn't have rights to modify smbpasswd. > >I know the smb.conf config should work. >I have added the users and machines using smbpasswd successfully, I can >connect to the shares over the network. >Somehow I have to force admin to be able to modify smbpasswd to allow for >the users. > >the only pertinent info out of the logs, > >unable to open file >unable to open passdb database >unable to open file /var/db/samba/smbpasswd. Error was permission denied. > > >[global] > local master = YES > guest account = unknown > encrypt passwords = YES > max smbd processes = 0 > print command = /usr/sbin/PrintServiceAccess printps %p %s > lpq command = /usr/sbin/PrintServiceAccess jobs %p > lprm command = /usr/sbin/PrintServiceAccess remove %p %j > lppause command = /usr/sbin/PrintServiceAccess hold %p %j > lpresume command = /usr/sbin/PrintServiceAccess release %p %j > printer admin = unknown, @staff > server string = Mac OS X Server > log file = /Library/Logs/WindowsServices/WindowsFileService.log > netbios name = onpaserv > workgroup = WORKGROUP > log level = 2 > wins support = YES > domain master = YES > client code page = 437 > coding system = utf8 > domain admin group = @admin > security = user > preferred master = YES > domain logons = YES > os level = 64 > logon drive = i: > logon home = \\onpaserv\users\%u > logon path = \\onpaserv\users\%u > logon script = %u.bat >[users] > path = /Volumes/iRAID/users > browseable = NO > read only = NO > comment = macosx > public = NO >[shared] > path = /Volumes/iRAID/shared > public = NO > read only = NO > writable = YES > comment = macosx >[projects] > path = /Volumes/iRAID/projects > public = NO > read only = NO > comment = macosx >[profiles] > path = /Volumes/iRAID/profiles > public = NO > read only = NO > comment = macosx > >Any help would be greatly appreciated > > > >Kyle Loree >Rendek Communications >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
